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FIRE PAIL COVER.

No. 538,949. Patented May 7, 1895.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE H. BRYANT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,. ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LUTHERC. BURGESS, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-PAIL oovER.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 538,949, dated May 7,1895.

Application filed-July 16, 1894. Serial No. 517,737. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BRYANT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Pail Covers; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which'Figure l is a sectional View of a fire-pail cover embodying myinvention and portions of a pail, showing the cover in position thereon.Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the receptacle in the act ofdischarging the fire-extinguishing compound into the water in thefirepail. Fig. 3 is a top perspective view of the cover partly brokenaway to show the receptacle on its under side. Fig. 4 is a sectionalview of the cover and receptacle, showing one manner of charging thereceptacle.

Like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur.

My invention relates to the construction of that class of covers forfire-pails or fire buckets, which are provided with a receptacle tocontain and storeadry fire-extinguishingcompound to be added to thewater at the time the fire occurs.

It is a common practice to provide fire-buckets for special use in caseof fire, and to suspend the same at convenient points in houses,factories, and on railroad coaches, steamboats, and other movingstructures, yet for various reasons it is not desirable to fill saidbuckets with water, or to charge the water with chemicals until requiredfor immediate use. Therefore a practice has grown up of providingseparate packages of dry fire-extinguishing compounds to be added to thewater when required.

The object of my invention is to provide a ready and secure meansofstoring the dry compound, in conjunction with a detached pail cover,and an efficient means of discharging the same into the pail at thedesired moment; and to this end the main feature of my inventionembraces the combination with a detached pail cover, or like detachableclosure for a pail, of a tilting or pivoted receptacle attached thereto,and a scraper or equivalent means for traversing the receptacle andcausing the discharge of its contents upon the tilting of saidreceptacle.

There are other minor features of invention, all as will hereinaftermore fully appear.

I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully so that othersskilled in'the art to which it appertains may apply the same.

In the drawings, A indicates the upper portion of a fire-pail orfire-bucket, with which the cover embodying my invention is designed tobe used. The form or size of the pail is immaterial, as the covers willbe of sufficient diameter to fit all ordinary pailsor may be made of anyspecial size or form desired.

1 indicates the cover proper which may be of any suitablematerial-preferably galvanized sheet iron-and 2 the tilting receptacle(of like material) pivoted on the cover as at 3 so as to dischargedownward into the bucket A. By preference the tilting receptacle 2 is ofhemispherical form, and is secured to a crossbar (or diameter rod) 4journaled on the cover as at 3, 3, and provided with a crank arm 6 orequivalent means for tilting the receptacle from above when the cover isin position on the fire-pail.

The cover 1 is formed on one side with a depression or recess 7 equal toand corresponding with one half the circle of the lip of the receptacle2 to receive the rim of the receptacle on said side and permit ofsealing the receptacle when charged, and is provided on the oppositeside with a narrow semi-circular slot 8, through which the receptacle 2can pass when tilted or rotated, said receptacle 2 being preferablyjournaled or pivoted axially or diametrically with relation to thecircle formed by the recess 7, and semi-circular slot 8. Thesemi-circular slot 8 will thus form a half moon tongue 9 in the cover 1,which tongue can be slightly depressed to form a recess for thereception of the soft sealing material 10 (see Fig. 1) which aids inhermetically closing the said receptacle. The tongue 9 also serves as ascraper or means of insuring the discharge of the contents of thereceptacle when the latter is tilted or rotated. An important feature inview of the fact that the compounds stored in receptacle 2 arefrequently of a hygroscopic 100 nature and become incrusted on the sidesof the receptacle materially interfering with the free discharge.

The construction being of the general character hereinbefore specified,the receptacle may be charged by holding the cover vertically (as shownin Fig. 4) with the receptacle 2 in ahorizontal position, and graduallybringing the two into a horizontal position so as to entrap and retainthe charge, after which the receptacle is hermetically closed byapplying a soft or plastic sealing material in the recess 7 on the underside of the cover and in the depression between formed by tongue 9 andthe rim of the receptacle on the top of the cover as at 10.

If desired the cover may be perforated as at 11 so as to suspend it whennot in use.

In case of fire, the cover will be placed upon the fire-pail, and thefire-extinguishing compound discharged into the bucket by tilting orrotating the receptacle 2, the tongue 9 cansing the full and freedischarge of the material even though the same should be incrusted onthe walls of the receptacle.

It is evident that the tilting receptacle 2 may be of other form thanthat shown and described, and that other than the shown and describedmeans of discharging or tilting the receptacle may be employed withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of my invention. Therefore,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A pail-cover for fire-buckets, said cover having a receptacleattached thereto and arranged to vibrate thereon, and provided withmeans which traverse the vibrating reccpta' cle to cause the dischargeof its contents, sub stantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination with a pail cover having a slot for the passage of atilting receptacle, of a compound receptacle pivoted on said cover andarranged to vibrate through the slot in the cover; substantially as andfor the purposes specified.

3. The combination with a pail cover having a sealing recess and a slotfor the passage of a tilting receptacle, of a tilting receptacle pivotedon said cover and arranged to vibrate through said slot in the cover;substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination with a pail cover having a semicircular slot and asemi-circular sealing! recess, of a hemispherical receptacle journaledon said cover diametrically with relation to the slot and recess;substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses,this 31st day of May, 189

GEORGE II. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

G. N. REEVES,

G. BRADLEY.

